Street Fighter IV DLC: both free and for-pay content coming

Capcom has announced a ton of upcoming downloadable content for Street Fighter …

Even though we're still twelve days away from the launch of Street Fighter IV, Capcom has already announced a slew of downloadable content for the upcoming game, some of it free and some of it with a price tag attached. The former is actually an expansion pack that will provide some new and improved content for the game, while the latter will feature new costumes for in-game characters.

The free expansion pack—better known as the "Championship Mode Expansion Pack"—will include Replay Mode, which allows players to record, upload, and download matches to share with the game's community; other players can then view these matches and analyze them, as well as provide feedback. The pack will also include a new point system which will measure a person's ranking in the Championship and Tournament modes, as well as a new tournament matching system that will allow more effective tournament matching for beginning/mid-level players.

The expansion packs with the alternate costumes are going to be released on a schedule, and will go for 320 MS points on the 360 and $3.99 for the PS3; here are the packs that Capcom has listed:

While the Championship Mode Expansion Pack certainly sounds like it will add welcome features to the game, Capcom might have a harder time convincing players that it's worth a grand total of $20 in order to get some extra character outfits.